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Valve and Collabora Announce Official Arch Linux ARM64 Port for Steam Frame

Steam Frame uses an ARM64 processor, so Collabora, in collaboration with Valve, has been developing Holo Core as a full AArch64 port of Arch Linux intended as the base for the operating system that will power the gaming VR headset. Since Arch Linux has no official ARM64 support, Collabora had to build new tooling and CI infrastructure from scratch.

DXVK 3.0.2 Brings Fixes for Dying Light: The Beast, Halo CE, Overwatch, and More

Coming two weeks after DXVK 3.0.1, the DXVK 3.0.2 release is here to work around a performance regression in some video games that create a new DXGI factory every single frame, such as Dying Light: The Beast with FSR enabled, but other D3D12 games could be affected as well.

Wayland 1.26 Is Now Available for Download with New Features and Improvements

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HackRF Pro SDR covers 100kHz to 6GHz with FPGA-based processing

The HackRF Pro follows the same general architecture as its predecessor but introduces several RF, processing, timing, and connectivity improvements. These include a flatter frequency response, removal of the characteristic center-frequency DC spike, an onboard temperature-compensated crystal oscillator, additional memory, RF shielding, and a USB Type-C connector.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 10, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. What LibreOffice and TDF Get Right About Document Formats (and What They Get Wrong)
    OOXML is a phantom - it is something nobody implements, not even Microsoft!
  2. Cannot Speak About IBM Wrongdoing or Jobs Being Sent Overseas (Lower Salaries)
    IBM has long attacked the media, the whistleblowers, and even online forums
  3. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The CIA-Funded Centre-Left in Portugal
    In the political turmoil which followed the fall of the old regime, the communists seemed to be acquiring a dominant position and there was a very real risk that Portugal could end up aligned with the Eastern Bloc if they were not stopped
  4. Yesterday Afternoon The Register MS Published a Fake Article That Says "AI" 31 Times Because It Got Paid to Do This
    What will happen when all those loans for slop (Ponzi scheme) stop and companies' marketing budgets - which include media bribes for hype campaigns - are no more?
  5. Extraordinary General Meeting of Staff Union of the European Patent Office Ahead of Intensifying Strikes
    We will, in the meantime, run a series about EPO corruption, which is now connected to corruption in Portugal and to corruption inside the EU

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  6. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Centre-Right "Social Democratic Party" in Portugal
    Quite an achievement for a former Maoist radical and aspiring champion of the Portuguese proletariat to be invited to join Goldman Sachs
  7. SLAPP Censorship - Part 102 Out of 200: Maybe One Day Whistleblowers From Brett Wilson LLP Will Tell Us What Really Happened
    Maybe one day some former staff of Brett Wilson LLP will also approach us to blow the whistle
  8. Gemini Links 09/06/2026: "The Mist of the Lands Between", Board Game Concept
    Links for the day
  9. 2026: The Year Slop Companies "Made an Exit" (Threw in the Towel Over to Wall Street)
    Remember 2026 as the year two major slop companies (which we won't name) sought an IPO
  10. Links 09/06/2026: NSO Group still cracking, "FOI tribunal throws out £14k costs claim against journalist Barnie Choudhury"
    Links for the day
  11. Links 09/06/2026: "Smartphones Broke Dating" and "EU Open Source Strategy"
    Links for the day
  12. This Coming Friday
    Richard Stallman (RMS)
  13. Several Slopfarms That Target "Linux" Seem to Have Died
    Or perished severely
  14. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  15. IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 08, 2026
    IRC logs for Monday, June 08, 2026
  16. Gemini Links 09/06/2026: Tanana River, Cassette Beasts, and Emacs
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2026-06-03 to 2026-06-09
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